Outcome details

Decision details

Ian David Brown’s practising certificate for 2019/2020 is subject to the following conditions:

Mr Brown may not act as a sole practitioner or as a sole solicitor manager or sole solicitor owner of any authorised body or authorised non-SRA firm.

Mr Brown may not act a compliance officer for legal practice (COLP) or compliance officer for finance and administration (COFA) for any authorised body, or head of legal practice (HOLP) or head of finance and administration (HOFA) for any authorised non-SRA firm.

Mr Brown may not provide legal services as a freelance solicitor offering reserved or unreserved services on his own account under Regulation 10.2(a) and (b) of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations.

In these conditions the definitions are as defined in the SRA Glossary.

Reasons/basis

The above conditions are necessary in the public interest and reasonable and proportionate having regard to the purposes set out in Regulation 7 of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations and the regulatory objectives and principles governing regulatory activities as contained in section 28 of the Legal Services Act 2007.

Decision
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Prosecution

Firm details

No detail provided:

Outcome details

This outcome was reached by SRA decision.

Reasons/basis

Outcome of SDT Hearing

This notification relates to a Decision to prosecute before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. This is an independent Tribunal which reaches its own decision after considering all the evidence, including any evidence put forward by the Respondent. The Tribunal had certified that there was a case to answer.

The matter was heard on 24-26 September 2019.

Mr. Ian Brown was fined £25,000 and shall be subject to the following condition:

He may not be a Compliance Officer for Legal Practice or a Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration.